"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."

"Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human."

"Liberation is a childbirth, and a painful one."

"The role of the revolutionary is not to 'save' the people, but to struggle with them for their liberation."

"Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it."